skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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California junk fee ban could upend restaurant industry
The Polar Pacer or Pracer Pro's only smart features are for exercises/etc. and I don't really use them, so it's really what you describe.
Fewer Americans see climate change as serious problem: Survey
> Any idea what this could mean for those holding crypto on Robinhood?

Robinhood ain't risking much I think. Look at what the ex CEO of Binance got: a personal fine of $50m (while he's believed to be worth about $30 billion), a $4bn fine for Binance and three months in prison (where he'll be the richest inmate in the US).

Meanwhile Binance keeps working.
There are all sorts of things taught in composition class that do not promote learning/understanding
I think it depends on the temperament and interest of the developer. Different people find different sorts of work easy and hard, and there is an enormous variety of types of software work out there.
In English we could say the tax is ring-fenced for specific purposes.
> CFTC seems to think it would be perfectly competent to handle the situation too

The way these businesses are run, it probably does too. A good amount of effort in finance goes into avoiding unneeded regulatory duplication. But if you’re a you’re a bank you get both the FDIC and SEC, a public drug manufacturer the SEC and FDA; if you’re selling crypto through your brokerage app, the SEC and CFTC.
Toyota just announced the Beyond Zero series of BEVs starting with the bZ4X. It's a 71kwh 355volt and charges at level 3. But the Hyundais are absolutely amazing. Also, plugin hybrids have gotten to be VERY good. Honda also just released the Prologue.

It's starting to look a little tough in the BEV market.
Does everybody with two copies get Alzheimer’s? If not, then there must be at least one additional ingredient / cause.
Ask HN: Advice on setting up adversarial programming challenge?
I have been very intrigued lately by the results shown in the SPAG paper [1], and I would like to take the next step in research.

I would like to set up an adversarial training exercise for LLMs around writing secure / robust code.

For those unfamiliar with the SPAG paper, the idea is to train an LLM on reinforcement learning on an adversarial language game. As their results show, teaching an LLM to play a language game (such as Taboo, in their paper) through reinforcement learning increases the model's ability to solve other human reasoning tasks (when compared to traditional imitation learning).

Rough idea:

Setup: The defender is responsible for writing code according to a specification and a set of (hidden) unit tests that will evaluate the code for validity and completeness. This will be the standard sort of setup for Leetcode or other coding challenge websites.

The attacker is responsible for calling the code in such a way that it will crash or fail or be exploited in some fashion. For instance, if the attacker has the goal of getting the defender's code to crash, then so long as the stack trace fails from inside the defender's code (and not the attacker's code), then it's a victory for the attacker.

Is there a better way to set up an automated red-team vs. blue-team for a coding CTF style challenge around Leetcode-type coding problems? If you wanted to set up a challenge in an adversarial style to train the defender to write more robust code, how would you do it?

[1] - https://github.com/Linear95/SPAG
The gas lines move steadily. It's really not a bad wait even when busy.
This is easy to solve by representing edits as amendments. Each edit forms a new "reply" node in the graph with the amended content.
Researchers develop a nanoparticle that can penetrate the blood-brain barrier
> alert the police if they see you again

Aren't inmates technically supposed to get healthcare? Could be a last-ditch option I suppose if you can't get something covered any other way. Personally I'm trying to stay employed to keep my coverage, but sometimes you can't outrun the layoffs.
Is Shopify an Overlooked Artificial Intelligence (AI) Powerhouse?
This is nothing new and something that has literally saved me a lot of work.
Any euid can connect to a localhost tcp socket. But a unix socket is protected with filesystem permissions (rwxrwxrwx, etc.).
Hi, see what's new on Equimake. I added 3D Text, Imgur & Flickr integration as well as Sky configuration - empowering creators to build their 3D galleries on the Web for free. Imgur and Flickr integration allows users to create interactive 3D galleries and 3D text can be used to leave contact information or can be used as a greeting message!

https://youtu.be/zhRmjvCFxSI?feature=shared
If you're aware of Toyota's ７つのムダ sure. I expect the average person to think 無駄 as used in daily conversation. I don't think the analogy with "legacy software" is accurate; "legacy" has multiple definitions in modern English, whereas 無駄 has exactly one definition in modern Japanese.

See https://kotobank.jp/word/%E7%84%A1%E9%A7%84-641862#w-641862

One of the example sentences -- 時間を無駄にする -- is exactly what my mind thought when reading the article's explanation of "muda". (Also: the second entry does not apply to modern Japanese; dictionaries reference old literature for example sentences of obsolete definitions)
ah what a conundrum, pitting legacy over security that's a big tradeoff decision. Those mostly seems like independent topics but I wonder if the deeper you go in maximizing legacy support the more vulnerable you make your systems in falling for security lapses of some kind. I wonder if these two things tangle in unforeseen ways deep beneath the surface.
> It's not like they're providing a bad service for the cost.

When it comes to healthcare, they absolutely are. The US spends more than double for the same outcomes as other developed countries.

And no, this isn't because of the cost to develop new and novel drugs (which aren't used in 99.9% of routine health care)
I'd translate "Beitrag" literally to "contribution", maybe add a "mandatory" as qualifier.

The key difference is that taxes are completely under discretion of parliamentary control, whereas the Rundfunkbeitrag is under discretion of the individual broadcast authority governance boards (which are too closely tied to politicians for my comfort, but that's another thing).
A lot of people truly underestimate the distance between towns in some rural areas of America. Another major issue is that rural areas are frequently subject to extended weather related power outages that can last days or even weeks.
A Critical Look at Critical Infrastructure
Restaurants, pub, hotels, vending demands support any day, any time.
I like to compare it to illiteracy.
Also this game has been mired in mild controversy the entire time it's been live because the dev team is genuinely incompetent ie, they released an update that included new purchasable armor that eliminated electric damage, ie a buff to electric weapons.

The same update made using electric weapons crash most games.

The released a new mech that could fire rockets. The rockets would explode immediately after firing in some cases because they would recognize a collision with the hitbox of the mech you are firing from. That's like, my-first-unity-game level bad programming there.

They released an update that supposedly fixed enemies spawning. The actual result was enemies spawning within view, constantly, to the point that even the easier difficulties would overwhelm you. I'm talking you kill an entire patrol, turn 360 degrees, and an entire new patrol spawns directly on top of the corpse of the previous group. The way the game works, this makes it essentially unplayable.

The game's friend and squad management system doesn't work fully if you play on playstation. Since launch. It also fucks up sometimes on PC if your steam username is too short. None of the Steam user APIs work on usernames, they all use a numeric SteamID

If you aren't the "host" of the session (which actually isn't the actual host of the session!) "Damage over time" effects like setting enemies on fire, or using poison gas, do not work at all, ie 0 damage. That hasn't stopped them from buffing the flamethrower because their "Metrics" (lol) say not enough people use it. They've even released armor that buffs using fire without fixing that it literally doesn't work for 3/4ths of the group.

The premier anti-armor weapon the game has is a knock off of the Javelin anti-tank missile launcher. The lock on has never worked correctly. It sometimes refuses to lock on to an enemy vehicle 10 ft in front of you. After 4 months of complaints, the devs FINALLY put it on the list of "known bugs". When people ask what's taking so long, a dev posted an inane response on discord about how "ray casts are hard and have a lot of edge cases" as if ray casts haven't been a basic tool of game development for thirty years.

Like, Arrowhead is amazing at game "feel", Magica feels awesome, even if I've never been able to adjust to the control scheme. Helldivers one seemed really fun but my friends and I couldn't get multiplayer to work, like it would just ignore some players for no reason.

That reason is because Arrowhead devs could not program themselves out of a paper bag. It's always been this way, Magica was so crash prone and buggy that they added a spell to crash the game as a joke.

Plenty of dev teams are similarly incompetent. Hell, I've been that useless before. But they evidently do zero quality assurance, and don't seem to have good enough source control to know what changes go in what release. Many of the above problems are "this would be caught by a single person attempting to play the game, how did you not catch this?"
In France we used to have the "Redevance audiovisuelle" which just like in German didn't use the same word. It was removed in 2022 but according to Wikipedia[1], this is what Germany is using. The french version has a European maps with the different sources of financement used in European TV broadcasting services.

Beitrag Wikipédia pages are available in other languages, namely Swedish and Esperanto. The meaning doesn't exactly match German's.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licence

[2] https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beitrag#/languages
How do you handle Postgres cluster failover? Does PeerDB automatically restore logical replication slot on a new primary?
Are we looking at the same chart? Other than the recent peak due to loons during COVID, it shows a reduction of almost 50% in per-incident deaths between 1990 and 2010.

See also this chart: https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/motor-vehicle/historical-fatalit...

Showing per capita deaths coming down from a car-boom peak of 27 in 1969 down to 11 by the 20-teens.

Vastly, vastly, safer.

That's not even getting into how things like energy absorbing bumpers have turned low speed collisions that might have results in injuries 50 or 60 years ago are now non-events. (probably no seat belts, certainly no shoulder belt, and the dash is full of chrome and zero padding)
Some common indicators (though this may have changed - I can only speak for ~7 years ago):

- Weird view counts. Strangely consistent, random sudden dropoff to near zero views, etc.

- No voice commentary. Can't steal videos from different channels if your "voice" changes I guess.

- A whole set of videos uploaded at once. This was more obvious when the linked channels were still active since you'd see like two rows of "2 days ago", then a bunch "1 week ago", then a bunch "3 weeks ago" etc.

- Social media etc links either missing or super basic.

- Few and generic comments vs. amount of views.

- Channel description generic, sometimes copied from other channels.

- The two I linked haven't done it, but some I saw were uploading long-plays of games split into many parts, I guess to easily pad out their total number of videos.

Another thing they were doing at the time, was changing their channel name and banner after a few weeks or months and then emailing again pretending to be a whole new channel. Easy to spot if you still had the old link and it was the same.

The second one I linked also mysteriously turns Russian if you scroll back far enough. Bit unusual for someone with their location listed as USA.
Well, you didnt frame it, right.

ABC isn't BS.

It's akin to Agile's "working code over comprehensive documentation."

Hustle porn is a more vague, aspirational grind till you make it. Whereas, ABC tells you to fail fast.
The Coming of Neo-Feudalism - Joel Kotkin (its a brainful)

Algorithns to live by - Brian Christian

Thinking Fast and Slow - Daniel khaneman

The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom - James Burnham
> Back in the day, Michael Abrash wrote quite a bit about how people would occasionally discover new video modes that VGA was capable of

That was not just true for VGA but for many of the ...interesting... cards which were put on the market 'back in the day'. I had one of those, a 'Diamond Brand' multi-IO + Hercules + memory card without documentation or drivers I happened upon at one of the then-ubiquitous hardware dump meets - it was the 'PC Dumpdag' in Amsterdam for those who remember that phenomenon - with which I spiced up my otherwise somewhat boring Bondwell BW 32. While working on a TSR (as in 'background routine') which would make it possible to automate data entry into some school management software package I ended up flipping a bit on the 6845 display controller on the thing upon which the vertical resolution suddenly doubled. Instead of 80 columns 25 lines it now displayed a somewhat compressed and initially messed up 80x50. Experimenting further I got it up to 80x70 and 132x70. I made another TSR to enable mode switching and used this quite a lot when working in Wordperfect and the like. It also did double the normal (720x348) graphics resolution which I got to work in a few programs but which was less useable than the text modes. I tested this program on many other boards but never found another one where it worked, alas.
Zulip is more of a Slack-like instant chat system with threading as a first class citizen; CQ2 looks like threads only exist in the context of one "root" document vs a channel in zulip where threads can intermingle.
> From my understanding they're doing so because the content is paid for by public money, and YouTube is a foreign for-profit company. So they were essentially spending the citizens money to provide content to a private entity that's headquartered abroad

That's one thing, but IIRC the larger part was that the private broadcasters whined as they always do.
You've crossed into religious flamewar. That's not allowed here, regardless of which religion the issue is with. We ban accounts that do it repeatedly, so please don't do it again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: we've had to ask you this once before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33220658. Not cool. No more of this on HN, please.
It's 18,36€ per month, not 17.

If you don't want people who don't care for TV or Radio (they do exist) to vote for AfD then you shouldn't have introduced a Rundfunkbeitrag that's very unpopular with many more. Scandals about money being badly spent just adds to the distrust and lack of interest people have in ARD, ZDF etc.
> For example, it is not be possible to write an FHE program that uses fewer instructions than the program’s worst-case input. Doing so would reveal information that the input is not the worst-case, which contradicts the security of the cryptography. Instead, an FHE program must eagerly compute all branches of if-statements, and then use a select statement to decide which result should be used.

What exactly is "select statement"? Curious to know how to select a value without giving away what this value equals to (even in encrypting form). Otherwise I assume it would give away as much as seeing which branch was taken.
The worst symptom of this imo is the inclusion of ink traps in digital fonts. I think they look awful, especially when blown up to poster size.
Here is a good book for some of the school-level math - https://archive.org/details/skanavii/mode/2up - in Russian.
> It seems like AWS' entire business model is making the pricing so confusing that you don't know what it will cost until after you've used it.

Complicated cost calculations are only a part of the issue. You (or your team) also have fault in that you did not take the time to understand the costs associated with your decisions and not utilize AWS cost management capabilities (that is assuming you did get a surprise bill in lieu of an alert saying you hit a budget threshold).

And that is in part due to the shift from having dedicated ops teams, to having programmers take on more infrastructure tasks. This isn't unique or novel--incorrectly configured buckets, committing access keys, poor IAM setup, etc happen so frequently due to devs who have no real practical experience managing production infrastructure having unchecked access to AWS.
I don't think it is predatory, I think it just happened over time due to demand. It is a marketplace after all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40101377
I thought of his Black Book when reading about the VGA registers. He goes quite deep into how the VGA hardware works. Interesting to read, but I only read it around 2010. Would have been much more useful to have read in 1990.

https://github.com/jagregory/abrash-black-book
I stumbled upon War Music after discarding (almost) every other translation of the Iliad because the translators cleary didn't get it. Sure, they could talk about Homeric epithets for days and knowingly reference the "wine dark sea," but the actual ethic and humanity of the Iliad eluded them. And when you do get those aspects (as Logue did), the actual choice of idiom by the translator becomes irrelevant, whereas if you don't get them, no matter how "technically accurate" the idiom is, it's just farcical. To my mind, these ersatz translations become the Homeric equivalent of English as She Is Spoke.
International billing.
That was something we had to worry about when buying our house.

The house I have is pretty old and the roof had some issues. I obviously was planning on fixing those, but it became a bit of a catch-22 problem; the insurance I was planning on using (cuz I had a discount from my employer) said that they wouldn't insure me until the roof was thoroughly fixed and/or replaced, but I couldn't fix the roof until the deal closed, and the mortgage company wouldn't close the deal until we had insurance. We were afraid we'd have to pay the insane insurance rates from the mortgage company.

Fortunately, after multiple days of shopping, I found one insurance company that agreed to insure me as long as I fixed the roof within 30 days of closing, which I did.
Obamacare is not a plan, it's a law that set minimum standards for health insurance plans, created marketplaces to cross-shop plans across providers on a single website, and created a system where you can receive government subsidies towards their cost if your income is low enough. At $45K, you would receive subsidies towards your insurance premiums.

I've bought my insurance on the ACA marketplace since it opened ten years ago. There's no difference I can see between the plans offered on the health insurance marketplace and those offered directly from the websites of the same insurers that offer coverage in my state (Blue Cross, CVS Aetna, United, Ambetter, etc).

The very highest deductible "catastrophic" plan offered on the marketplace in California for a 29 year old has a $9450/year deductible, which is also the maximum out-of-pocket expense for the year if you have this plan. A $100K deductible plan does not exist, and when you enroll during the annual enrollment period or after a qualifying life event, plans take effect the day you make your first payment, not months later.

I'm 10 years your senior and pay less than $350 per month with a lower deductible than the plan quoted above, with no government subsidies.
> getting people to use even the first layer of threads is very difficult, especially non-technical people

I've found that as well. I wonder why that is--many times I've been working with someone who is extremely intelligent and methodical as an individual, but structured communication totally breaks down as soon threads enter the picture.

Interestingly, this sometimes even happens verbally (at work, when doing tech support on either side of the phone, at feedback discussions with artists/writers, when talking with friends): some folks really do not like "zeroing in" on specific sub-discussion items, talking them out, then moving on or going back to the bigger picture. Instead, they like to jump around or "chroot" the discussion to whatever the most recent topic of interest is. Anecdotally, it's very much a "two kinds of people" situation, but I don't know what the common factor is (and again, I don't think this is a skill/bad-faith issue; these are smart and reasonable people. They just ... don't think in trees or stacks).
Image shows atoms transforming into quantum waves as Schrödinger predicted
The key difference is that the government never touches the money anywhere between citizen and broadcaster, to avoid unwarranted influence. I assume that people who know the British term know that, as the German one is surely modeled after the BBC. I'm writing for other readers.

The downside is that it's a per head (or per household) sum, not coupled to income like taxes would be. This is usually explained away by the fee being separate from the state, but the reality is that Germany actually has it all implemented, in the form of the opt-in "church tax" coupled to taxable income just like regular tax. Handled by the tax office, but not going too government coffers. Would be so easy to extend the implementation to public broadcasting, because you don't pay to consume the media, you pay to live in an environment that is not dominated by profit-driven broadcasting media. There are many negative things to say about our public broadcasting, but when I look at other countries that don't have strong public broadcasting, it's so much the lesser evil, totally worth the fee.

(personally, I'd love to see that "church tax implementation" opened up to all kinds of opt-in membership organisations that would see value in income-coupled membership fees, I believe that a lot of good things could work that way, with people of all income levels enjoying an objectively fair way of contributing)
If this were really the justification, there are almost always better ways to do it. ("If you're wondering about X, see section N". Or just link to it.)

Like other dark patterns, there times when this sort of thing can make sense, but in practice it's usually done (consciously or not) to get the reader to read more than they would otherwise.
It's a joke as old as time

Q: How many people work at $large_org

A: About half of them!
Somehow we got to the point when we need something like FreeBSD key signing parties but we surely can't have these for everything actually.
Trade Wars are Class Wars by Klein and Pettis

I was originally pointed to this book as an answer to my persistent question "I love manufacturing, but it seems like the US economy hates manufacturing, why?" and while it did give me a satisfactory grasp of the macroeconomics involved, it also became my reference for a handful of trade policy / macroeconomic points that are, shall we say, less frequently bubbled up by The Submarine (in reference to the Paul Graham essay).
you have to live someplace though. Over the 30 year life of that roof it is cheap enogh but that is a large one time cost if you only are there for 5 years.
I agree it would, and I think it's unlikely, but I also think there's a gap between Docker Compose and Kubernetes, and while I know the implementation gap is large, the configuration syntax gap is small. If someone could extend the Compose syntax to include some sort of way to declare what node tags it should/shouldn't run on, and how many, it might be really interesting as a good power for config complexity tradeoff.
Healthier or not, freezing bread is very good at making it prematurely stale.
President Sally Kornbluth and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Discuss the Future of AI